“Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions (quoted in CCC 2340) “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by […]
(CWR, Yaoundé) On Wednesday, Pope Leo XVI visited a prison in Equatorial Guinea’s capital city of Batá, and offered words of comfort to inmates who might be tempted to view their lives as worthless. Under […]
The medical profession naturally involves encountering people at their most vulnerable and dealing with some of the most profound suffering that humans face. But it can also be an experience of profound joy, as when […]
On Antonin Scalia’s first day of Catholic education, an expatriate of the New York City public-school system arriving as a freshman at Xavier High School in Manhattan in September 1949, he beheld a most unusual […]
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared in slightly different form on AMAC’s “Newsline” and is reposted here with kind permission Just as liberal elites are currently attempting to drive a wedge between Catholics and Evangelicals, they are also […]
With the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Congress prohibited “the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion unless it demonstrates that doing so both furthers a compelling governmental interest and represents […]
In the midst of the Easter season, we re-read the twenty-fourth chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, the Emmaus story, my favorite passage in the New Testament. On Easter night, two lonely, frustrated disciples of Jesus […]
The warmth of the Pope’s reception in Bamenda, which is the epicenter of Cameroon’s separatist violence, was palpable, even while the underlying trauma of the region was impossible to ignore. Archbishop Andrew Nkea welcomed the […]
In 1949, Ida Friederike Görres wrote, “That which is unnatural … people say, is indissolubility.” She disagreed. By 1971, when she sent her final book, What Binds Marriage Forever (CUA Press, 2026), to the publisher, she saw […]
Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. The First Apocalypse: The Blessings of Anarchy In the fifth century, the Western Church suffered its First Apocalypse, losing its demographic race to revive […]
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